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Piano’s Paddington Skyscraper

By Tom Turner Posted on October 27, 2015 Posted in skyline policy Tagged with London

Renzo Piano has designed a Skyscraper for Paddington. Simon Jenkins calls it the Paddington Pole and comments that ‘Unlike the Shard, the Pole appears to have all the subtlety of a cigarette.’ I see it as the Paddington Pepperpot and …

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Beckenham Place Park development

By Robert Holden Posted on October 13, 2015 Posted in public parks Tagged with Lewisham, London, public parks

A 96 hectare, well wooded, park on the southern boundary of Lewisham Council, Beckenham Place was a country house and park for the Cator family in the eighteenth century. The house was built by Sir John Cator c. 1773 and …

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London Housing Crisis

By Robert Holden Posted on October 12, 2015 Posted in housing, landscape architecture Tagged with housing, London, shortage

Costs of London rents and freehold properties are rising beyond ordinary workers’ means (to £474,544 in June 2015 (i)). People are having to travel from outside the Greenbelt at great expense. The Mayor’s draft Housing Policy (2014) forecast a need …

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Crossrail

By Robert Holden Posted on August 28, 2015 Posted in landscape architecture Tagged with London

  Finally, decades after Paris began its RER system, London  is building its first Crossrail, which is west-east and due to open in 2019. Like Paris’s RER it is being built to continental GB loading gauge and it eventually could …

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The Greenway from Newham to Tower Hamlets

By Tom Turner Posted on August 26, 2015 Posted in greenways Tagged with London

The Northern Outfall Sewer, which runs from Wick Lane to Beckton sewage treatment works was designed by Joseph Bazalgette after the 1853 cholera outbreak. Walkers were able to use much of the land above the sewer and it was known as Sewerbank. …

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Potters Fields landscape architecture London

By Tom Turner Posted on August 25, 2015 Posted in public parks Tagged with London

Eelco Hooftman of GROSS.MAX was the landscape architect for Potters Fields Park in London. The site was once a pottery in which English Delftware was made. It is on the south bank of the River Thames. Piet Oudolf the perennial …

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Mayow Park, Sydenham

By Robert Holden Posted on August 23, 2015 Posted in public parks Tagged with London

 Sydenham Just north of Sydenham and in Perry Vale off Mayow Road and south of Forest Hill, this seven hectare park was opened in 1875 when the area was being first developed. It still has a fair number of field …

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King’s Cross Square landscape architecture London

By Tom Turner Posted on August 23, 2015 Posted in urban squares Tagged with London

The space in front of King’s Cross was redesigned by Stanton Williams in 2010. Previously, it was occupied by a scrappy ticket hall which partly obscured Cubitt’s handsome 1852 station facade. Clearing the space was a wise choice. The open …

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Bankside Open Spaces Trust – BOST

By Tom Turner Posted on August 20, 2015 Posted in community gardens Tagged with London

The Bankside Open Spaces Trust (BOST) is regenerating public open spaces in north-west Southwark and also making new public open spaces. It is a community initiative – and it is going very well. Some of the spaces were neglected public …

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Don’t breathe in Oxford Street

By Robert Holden Posted on August 18, 2015 Posted in green streets, landscape architecture Tagged with air pollution, London, pedestrianization, public transport, urban design

                        Caption: An image of a traffic free Oxford Street from one of Labour’s 2016 Mayoral candidates, Christian Wolmar. David Carslaw’s paper at the June 2014 London Air Quality Network …

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